Word: battleships
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...howled. And from a forest of mastheads bobbing in the harbor royal ensigns dipped in respectful greeting. On the quarter-deck of the Vanguard the Royal Family stood once again, berry-brown and beaming at the end of their 14,000-mile, three-month trip. As the great, grey battleship that had carried them so far slid gracefully into her home berth once more, Princess Elizabeth was so excited that she broke into a dance step. "Oh," cried a dockside onlooker, as the Duke of Gloucester went bounding up the gangplank to greet his relatives, "it's good...
Britons talked sadly about the inglorious end of a once proud vessel, the 34-year-old battleship Warspite. The old lady had come to be a sort of symbol of British fortitude through two wars. In 1916's Battle of Jutland, her steering gear jammed, the Warspite had run around in circles, taking terrible punishment from German shells. But she had come back. In World War II she had been seriously damaged in action off Salerno, but had come back to fight again on D-day off Normandy. Last week the "miracle ship," stripped of her fighting gear...
...Germans for Zanzibar and a chunk of continental Africa, it was considered a fine swap. "Like getting a whole suit of clothes for a single trouser button," crowed famed African Explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley. By 1914 the Kaiser had spent $80 million turning Helgoland into an "unsinkable battleship...
...both oceans, submarines scored outstanding successes, "sinking" the flagship of the Atlantic force, and a capital ship (battleship or carrier) in the Pacific. To many a Navy man who sees the submarine as the best warship of the future, this was the most significant result of the mock warfare...
...bringing up his left arm as his voice rose, "the right honorable gentleman did not wake up one morning and say, 'Oh, let us get another Viceroy!' It must have some purpose or reason behind it." He scowled across at Attlee, then slowly wheeled round like a battleship's gun turret and returned to his seat...